Employment in the Gaspé

For many years, the Gaspé had one of the highest unemployment rates in the province. But the job market there is shifting and the unemployment is the lowest it has been since the late 1980's. The CBC's Marika Wheeler joins host Ainslie MacLellan to talk about the employment portrait.

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